Fastening for car-doors



(No Mudel.) *SCHARNWEBBR- FASTENING FOR GAR DOORS.

N'0.270,25.2.` Patented.Ja,n.9,1883.

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I A chesp-locks]7 someof which are provided with `screw to push insteadof to draw upon the 4horizontal section ot'A the same on the line z eNITED 4STATES d VILLlAM'SGHARNVVEBER, OF.. JEFFERSON, ASSIGNOR OFONEHALF T() ANGEL HOB-NER, OF

FASTENING Fo CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

R CAR-DOORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,252, dated January9, 1883.

Application tiled August 7,1882. (No model.)

To all whom t't may concer/n y Be it known that I, WILLIAM SoIIARNwEBER, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Jefferson, in the countyof Cook and -State of lllinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Fastenings for Gar-Doors; and I hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of` the same.

M y invention relatesto an adjustable fastening for car-doors for thepurpose ot' holding` the same wholly shut or partly shut, as desired,and preventing them from jarring open by the movement ot' the car, thefastening also atfcrdg in g convenient means for attaching the car-seal.lt belongs to the class of devices known as a screw adapted to connectthe door with the post or jamb through the medium of a nut thereon, andby turning to draw the two more closely together. My device is intendedonly for sliding doors, and is peculiarin the fact, among others, thatit operates by means of a door, being secured to the edge opposite theclosing edge and bearing between the door and a stop.

My invention accordingly/,consists in a hasp formed of two parts,serving as nuts forascrew which connects them, so that by turning thescrew the two parts may be brought either nearer together or fartherapart, as required, one of thc parts being hinged by staples orotherwise to the edge of the door and theother part being provided witha notched lug to enter a hole in a metal plate, setinto the wall linshwith the surface thereof, thus serving as a stop for the lug withoutoiering any obstructionto the doorin opening'.

ltconsists, also,in certain details of construction and combinations ofparts, all as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a freight-car door andpart of the wall provided with my device, and Fig. 2 an enlarged 0i'Fig. l.

A is the wall of the car, and B the sliding door, opening toward theright.

C is a metal plate, consisting of the body n and two branches, lu., eachbranch, toward lits end being bent outward to a right angle, as shown att,forming a shoulder to rest against the edge ofthe door, and thenbackward, as shown at s,to project over the edge of thedoor. The end ofeach brauch is provided with an eye, fr, to t upon astaple,q, inthedoor. Upon the body o a lug,p, is cast, threaded upon its interior toreceive a screw, 0, having a rather A long cylindrical head, a, providedwith two holes, m, passing through it at right angles with each other.Projecting vlongitudinally from the head opposite the sciew, andcastwith it, but of smaller circumference than the saine,

D is also provided near its onterend with aslot,

j', enlarged'to a circular opening at its center.

E isa third plate, provided with three or more openings, e, in line,each large enough to permit the passage through it of thelug It. Thisplate is set into the wall of the car iiush with the surface thereof,and secured in place by means ot' screws.

The wall of the car is provided with recesses d under the holes e, butlarger than the same in diameter, as shown. Along bolt, c, of the properdiameter to pass through theholes m in the screw-head, is attached to aconvenient part of the device by a chain, b, and is provided with a holetoward its lower end to receive a car-seal, a.

The application of my device is as follows:v

The door being shut, the device is turned over to the right and thescrew turned until thelug h registers with and enters the lcfthandopening, e. The screw is then turned to the left, (the end of the bolt cbeinginserted in the holes m for thispurpose,) thus forcing the shoulderg of the lug h under the edge of the plate E and causing the parts t ofthe branches to bear against theedge of the door.

1f it is desired to have the door not wholly shut, as is often the case,thelug h may be ICQ caused to enter one of the other holes, e, in theplate E, a block of the proper Width being inserted between the oppositeedge of the door f andthe side of the opening for the door to bear 5against in opposition to the screw. The device beingin the positionshown, with the door shut or nearly shut, the car-seal a may bepassedthrough theholeofthe bolt, thus preventingthe fastening from beingundone Without breaking the seal, since the screw cannot be turned withoutrstrelnovingthebolt. Whenthedooris to be opened the device isunfastened and turned over on the staples to the positionindicated bythe dotted lines` in Fig. 1, the plate D being 15 turned around on theswivel l, and the slot f 'therein passed over a staple, q', in the door.The boltcis then inserted in the staple q', thus holding the device inplace out ol' the Way. e A recess should be made in the door 2o near thestaple g to receive the lug h..

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In combination with a Wall and slidingv door, a hasp formed of twoparts connected 25 together by an adjustingscrew, one of said partsbeing hinged to the edge o f the door opposite its closing edge and theother being provided with a lug havinga notch in its outer side, and ametal plate with one or more openings to receive the lug secured to theWall ot' 3o the car -flush with the surface thereof, sub- `stanti-allyas shown and described.

` 2. In combination with the Wall and sliding door of a freight-car,provided with staples and recesses, as shown, the plate G, comprisingthe body o, branches u, bent to the form shown and itting upon thestaples q by means of eyes i', and lugp, having a threaded open-v ingthrough it,'screw comprising the threaded portion o, head n, havingholes m and cylindrical extension l, plate D, having the lug k, with anopening for the parti of' the head, and lug It, having a shoulder, g,plate E, having openings e, and the bolt c, substantially as described.

WILLIAM soHARNWEBER.'

In presence of- EPHRAIM BANNING, THos. A. BANNING.

